Abarth has announced the dates for the inaugural Trofeo Abarth 500 Rally championship which will comprise of six rounds, four of which will be part of the Italian Rally Championship, kicking off with the Rally Mille Miglia on 23/24 April 2010

Two of the Lancias road tested by Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond for a special edition of BBC Top Gear that aired last weekend, the Fulvia Coupe and Delta HF Inegrale, were provided by members of Club Lancia Sport

Keith Cronin endured a torrid time during the first full day of the Rally of Scotland yesterday as his debut at the wheel of a Abarth Grande Punto S2000 turned into a nightmare before finally ended with a crash on the fourth stage of the morning

Keith Cronin will start the first full day of the Rally of Scotland, the final round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge this morning from eighth place after a promising start last night to his first outing in an Abarth Grande Punto during

Newly crowned British Rally Champion Keith Cronin is all set to fly the flag for Abarth when the final round of the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge, the Rally of Scotland, gets underway this evening with the first two timed stages

Forty teams, coming from other Italian regions, such as Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Latium and Calabria as well as Sicily; have celebrated Lancia's glorious sporting past with excursions around some of the most beautiful locations in Sicily

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Sicily Lancia Graffiti

Fresh from providing the cars used in the new season of BBC TV Top Gear, Club LanciaSport will be at the NEC MPH Show showing several of the most significant rally machines from Lancia's hugely successful motorsport history

Having amassed enough points by the end of the second leg in Valais to secure the European crown, Giandomenico Basso went on to finish the rally second overall to take a final 19 point advantage in the championship standings

With two of the three legs of the Rallye du Valais completed, Giandomenico Basso has secured enough points to claim the FIA European Rally Championship title, the second time he has won it at the wheel of the Grande Punto Abarth

While the factory Abarth squad will skip the final round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge in Scotland next month, the newly crowned British Rally Champion Keith Cronin will be in action at the wheel of one of the Scorpion S2000 cars

Luca Rossetti won the 28th Rally di Como over the weekend, the final round of the 2009 Italian Rally Championship, however he agonisingly lost the title in a tie-break after finishing on level points with his closest rival Paolo Andreucci

ItaliaspeedTV: On board video of Luca Rossetti and Matteo Chiarcossi (Abarth Grande Punto S2000) on the 28.7 km long opening special stage "Val Cavargna" of the 28th Rally di Como

Giandomenico Basso needs just two points from the final round of the FIA European Rally Championship in two weeks time to collect the title for a second time after he put in a commanding performance on the Rally Antibes Cote d’Azur

Giandomenico Basso will be aiming to extend his European title advantage when the penultimate round of the series, the 44th Rally Antibes Côte d'Azur, kicks off at 8:00 PM this evening with a short 1.88 km long superspecial stage

PENTTI AIRIKKALA 1945 - 2009: The rally world is in mourning with the sad news that one of its legends, and a paid-up member of the breed of "Flying Finns" that for so long made rallying at the highest level their own, has passed away

The petrol/methane-powered Fiat Panda Natural Power, Italy's best-selling alternative fuelled production car, has just been a key protagonist in the fourth edition of Ecorally, where it won the class reserved for methane-powered vehicles

Giandomenico Basso survived everything that the treacherous ELPA Rally could throw at him and second place gave him maximum European Rally Championship points and he was further boosted by the demise of his closest title rival

Luca Rossetti came out on top of a titanic battle with his Italian title rival Paolo Andreucci over the final leg of 51st Rallye Sanremo yesterday and he keeps his hopes of winning the title flickering until the final round of the series

Abarth factory star Luca Rossetti went fastest through last night's marathon 40 km Cuori stage to close the gap on rally leader Paolo Andreucci to 1.7 seconds as the title-fighting Italian pair stamp their authority on their home event